As you may already know, our WPF product suite includes a broad range of appearance customization options to help you address UI design requirements and deliver the best possible desktop user experience. These customization options include:
- Integrated Theme palettes
- SVG palettes
- Standard APIs across our WPF product line (Background settings, BorderThickness, BorderBrush, CornerRadius, Padding)
- Advanced customization APIs: Checked/Unchecked, ReadOnly state customization (see EditorAppearanceProperties), BarItem triggers, ProgressBarEdit.ProgressBrush, TrackBarEdit.ThumbStyle, Calculator.OperationButtonStyle, etc.
- Fluent design effects: acrylic window and reveal highlight
The following screenshot helps illustrate what is possible with our WPF UI components:
In this sample app, we used the following features to customize the view and overall user experience:
- Acrylic window effect was applied.
- Reveal highlight was applied. You can experience this effect when you hover over menu items.
- Theme palette was applied to customize highlight, focus, selection, and other colors.
- SVG palettes were used to style images from our gallery.
- Standard DevExpress WPF APIs used include:
- Background to produce semi-transparent elements.
- BorderThickness to remove unnecessary/unwanted border effects.
- CornerRadius to round buttons.
- ItemTemplate to customize ListBoxEdit items.
If you’d like to reproduce this UX or see what we did to create it, feel free to download the design template at your convenience: How to Create a Unique Design for a WPF View using Appearance Options
And if you found this sample of value and if you’d like us to produce more samples in the future, please post a comment below. Thank you.
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